Category: Tech

There are times when we need to kickoff another console application within our program. Recently, I found I needed to kickoff a few little jobs on a remote server. I considered putting them on a scheduler but that didn’t make sense. The programs I am dealing with are needed once or twice a month and…

Dear Netflix – I have been a loyal subscription holder since the beginning. I was an avid Blockbuster fan, and got tired of nothing being available when I went and my coupons for free rentals run out. That’s when I discovered your service. I said to myself, ‘hey…this is cool…i’ll just set all the friggin…

Tesla, the electric car maker making waves in the auto industry, seems to constantly be under the spot light. When you’re the new on the block and you starting knocking out the competition that’s when they start screaming foul and running for help. Short sellers like Citron and “Pedi-Guy” are trying to get as much…

Like most of Google’s services, Gmail comes with bountiful APIs to help us build out software for meeting our growing demands. To learn the full details of the Gmail API, check out the very informative guide to Google’s Gmail API here. For this tutorial we are not going to focus on getting your service account,…

This is how I got really good at JavaScript… About 5 years ago I started learning to code. At the time I didn’t know what I wanted to code. I just knew I wanted to be a programmer, sick of the daily political non-sense of the finance industry. I happened to receive an Arduino as…

Good morning YouTube Creators, up yours! – The Management “Today we are announcing changes to the YouTube Partner Program (YPP). While our goal remains to keep the YPP open to as many channels as possible, we recognize we need more safeguards in place to protect creator revenue across the YouTube ecosystem. Under the new eligibility…

Angular 5 is the newest release of the Angular Framework. In this article, we will be looking at how to build a simple service using the angular command line interface, or CLI. In the Angular ecosystem, services refer to the piece that is commonly used for storing data and making HTTP calls. We will not…

Ionic is an open source framework for building websites and mobile apps in one. With Ionic it is possible to code once and deploy to all. Go is the best language I have ever used. Go compares to C++ in speed and Java in readability. Go is cleaner, more precise, builds in seconds, seems to excel…

Today I am going to show you how to make the simplest Go web server. This particular instance will only return a string of text. I don’t think you can really get more basic than that. Purpose This article is meant to introduce you to the Go language and useful Go libraries. Prerequisites You will…

Let’s Make Your First Go Application “Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software.” – Go Team Getting Our Environment Setup Choosing the right IDE I would highly recommend Visual Studio Code (VSCode). This IDE is powerful, fast, offers an infinite sea of plugins and…